Navigation in Antiquity

Name: La navegación en la Antigüedad
Start: 2023-09-16T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée archéologique d’Argentomagus

This exhibition explores the history and diversity of the Roman navy: exceptional harbours and works, piracy, mythology and beliefs, corporations and maritime trade, splendour, etc.

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

Musée Argentomagus

This exhibition allows to discover the history and the diversity of the Roman navy: ports and exceptional works, piracy, mythology and beliefs, corporations and maritime trade, pomp and water shows, as well as the wrecks that archaeology reveals through underwater and underwater discoveries.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Musée archéologique d’Argentomagus

Les Mersans, 36200 Saint-Marcel

Indre
Centre-Val de Loire

Archaeological museum built on Gallo-Roman monumental remains. The Gallo-Roman agglomeration developed from the ancient Gaulish oppidum of the Mersans plateau, which became since the first century AD a political, economic and religious centre (forum, basilica, commercial buildings, fountain, thermal baths, theatre...). Roman Garden. The Argentomagus Museum conveys the image of an archaeology within everyone’s reach. The spaces are punctuated by numerous reconstructions from prehistory to the Gallo-Roman era. Each year, archaeological excavations reveal new knowledge of the hidden city: streets, neighbourhoods, forums, basilica, theatre...